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@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ What's New in Python 2.5 alpha 1?
 Core and builtins
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+- Bug #1378022, UTF-8 files with a leading BOM crashed the interpreter.
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 - Support for converting hex strings to floats no longer works.
   This was not portable.  float('0x3') now raises a ValueError.